1895 in Scotland
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{{Year in Scotland| 1895 }}
Events from the year 1895 in Scotland.
Incumbents
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- Secretary for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Sir George Trevelyan, Bt, to 29 June; then Lord Balfour of Burleigh
= Law officers =
- Lord Advocate – John Blair Balfour until July; then Sir Charles Pearson
- Solicitor General for Scotland – Thomas Shaw; then Andrew Murray
= Judiciary =
Events
- 11 February – the lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2 °C (measured as -17 °F) is recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire.{{cite web|url=http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1551402|title=Braemar poised to break its own record as coldest spot|work=The Press and Journal|location=Aberdeen|date=2010-01-07}} (This UK Weather Record is equalled in 1982 and again in 1995.)
- 11 April – electric light is introduced in Edinburgh.{{cite web|title=History of Edinburgh|url=http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|work=Visions of Scotland|access-date=2014-02-25|archive-date=14 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214170220/http://www.visionsofscotland.co.uk/EdinHistory.htm|url-status=dead}}
- 13 April – first cremation in Scotland's first crematorium, at Glasgow's Western Necropolis.{{cite web|title=Our Story|url=http://glasgowcrematorium.co.uk/history.htm|work=Glasgow Crematorium|publisher=The Scottish Cremation Society|access-date=2016-07-12|archive-date=2 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702004240/http://glasgowcrematorium.co.uk/history.htm|url-status=dead}}
- July–August – second "Race to the North": Operators of the East and West Coast Main Line railways accelerate their services between London and Aberdeen.
- 28 October
- The Daily Record newspaper is first published.
- Probable date of the first car shipped into Scotland, a Panhard for Glasgow engineer George Johnston.{{cite news|title=Scotland's motoring century|first=Ross|last=Finlay|newspaper=The Herald|location=Glasgow|date=1995-10-27|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/scotland-s-motoring-century-1.654344|access-date=2014-04-08}}
- Percy Pilcher flies in several versions of his hang glider Bat at Cardross, Argyll, the first person to make repeated heavier-than-air flights in the UK.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst894.html|title=Percy Sinclair Pilcher|work=Gazetteer for Scotland|publisher=School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh|access-date=2014-04-17}}{{cite web|title=Percy Sinclair Pilcher (1867–1899)|url=http://www.engineeringhalloffame.org/profile-pilcher.html|publisher=Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame|year=2011|access-date=2014-04-17}}
- Sule Skerry lighthouse completed.
- New Dunoon Pier built.
- New offices for The Glasgow Herald (later The Lighthouse), designed by John KeppieThe Lighthouse, Glasgow. Building information (leaflet). and worked on by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
- New premises for Jenners department store in Princes Street, Edinburgh, completed.
- The North British Aluminium Company builds Britain's first aluminium smelting plant on the shore of Loch Ness at Foyers.
- Babcock & Wilcox Ltd establish a manufacturing facility at Renfrew based on the existing Porterfield Foundry.
- Paterson's begin baking oatcakes in Rutherglen.{{cite web|title=Paterson Arran|url=https://www.paterson-arran.com/|access-date=2016-04-24}}
Births
- 2 March – Hughie Ferguson, footballer (suicide 1930)
- 9 March – Isobel Baillie, soprano (died 1983)
- 29 March – Anne Redpath, still life painter (died 1965)
- 19 May – Charles Sorley, poet (killed in action 1915)
- 17 June – George MacLeod, soldier and minister of religion (died 1991)
- 16 July – Hay Petrie, character actor (died 1948)
- 25 August – R. D. Low, comics writer and editor (died 1980)
- 3 October – George Henry Tatham Paton, recipient of the Victoria Cross (killed in action 1917)
Deaths
- 18 June – Lord Colin Campbell, Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1885 and probable adulterer (born 1853)
- 22 August – Peter Denny, shipbuilder and owner (born 1821)
- George Thompson, shipowner and politician (born 1804)